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Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec. 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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th which was soldfor twenty dollarsmore. And so theseKusaians, self-moved,have sent this generouscontribution to relievethe destitute on theother side of the globe.Forty years ago thesepeople were naked sav-ages. The gospel pro-duces the same effectupon men everywhere.It leads to self-sacrific-ing liberality. Gospel in all Lands tells of an African wo-man who came into possession of an English Bible.She and her people had learned something of thegospel and knew a little of the significance of thebook. But no one could read it. So a day wasappointed, notice was given, and at the appointedhour the Bible was laid on the stump of a tree inan open space. Then the natives began to as-semble, took their places in a circle about thespot, and, after waiting for a time in reverentsilence, quietly dispersed. Can it be doubted thatthe Father who seeketh those to worship him whoworship in spirit and in truth accepted the poor,maimed service, which was all these ignorant menand women had to offVr ?
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§1 1898.) CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENHON IN CHINA. 249 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION INCHINA. LA VINA M. EOLLKSTONE. Perhaps some of your readers would like tohear of our last Presbyterian Christian Endeavorconvention held the beginning of last March. Thishas now come to be an annual gathering and isone of the inspiration points which come to usand make us missionaries u thank God and takecourage. To the natives it is also a great in-spiration, undoubtedly the greatest of the wholeyear as can be seen by the numbers which come,by the attention with which they listen and bythe earnestness of their remarks and prayers. During the convention almost all live in house-boats on which they come. There are better andinferior kinds of houseboats, and in all thequarters are cramped, especially when ten or morepeople are inside. In the country places only theinferior kind is procurable, taking which into ac-count together with the Chinese hatred of incon-venience, and with the fact that about that

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